Dates
The international slave trade was outlawed in this year.
What is 1808?
"Denmark Vesey" is MOST associated with this
What is an attempted slave revolt?
Following the American Revolution, this was the primary economic activity in the southern states.
What is cotton farming?
This term refers to the growing cultural and economic differences between the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?
What is the sectionalism?
States, typically in the north, where slavery was illegal.
Nat Turner is MOST known in American history for this
Leading an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in the 1830s?
This reason was why slavery was common in the Southern states.
What is The South needed the slave population to grow labor-intensive tobacco, cotton, and rice?
This man was the leader of the States' Right Party.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This region had an industrial economy.
What is the north?
Loyalty to a particular region or section of a country instead of to the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This compromise dealt with slavery.
What is Compromise of 1850?
This is how wealth was measured in the South.
What is if you owned lots of land and slaves?
In the antebellum period MOST of the people in the Lowcountry were this.
What is merchants?
Sectionalism helped create this system.
What is the two party system?
Little town lawyer/politician named A. Lincoln runs for president on the idea that slavery should not extend past where it already was.
What is the Election of 1860?
South Carolina seceded from the Union after this event.
What is election of 1860?
The Dred Scott decision is most important for causing this.
What is determine that slaves were property?
This is the official name of the Trail of Tears
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This region believed the idea of slavery was up to the states to deal with the use of slavery because it was provided for in the Constitution.
What is the south?
The act of formally leaving a government
What is secession?
The year did members of the South Carolina secession convention unanimously vote to succeed from the Union
What is 1860?
The cotton gin inadvertently led to this.
What is the spread of slavery?
An increased demand of cotton meant this.
What is an increased demand meant higher cotton prices, which meant producers wanted to grow more cotton, leading to an increase in slavery in the South and increased tension between North and South.
Secessionists were also known as this
What is Fire-Eaters?
The act of determining a law is unconstitutional or invalid
What is nullification?